neighbourhood in Den Haag
Laakhaven-Oost
5,265 residents · postal code 2521 · Part of Laakkwartier en Spoorwijk, Den Haag
Everything close by, little space
Laakhaven-Oost is exceptionally densely populated: more than eighteen thousand people live there per square kilometre. There is hardly any greenery and the noise level is considerably above the national one. That part of the neighbourhood consists of water does not save the quiet pillar: it comes out at 2.8.
The crime rate is more than three times the national one, and theft carries the largest part of that. Yet this is not purely a theft neighbourhood: violence too is at more than double the usual level, and that in particular weighs heaviest in the safety score.
There is nothing to fault about the amenities — the shop, the GP, the school and a restaurant are all within a kilometre, good for a 9.0. The residents themselves are less comfortably off: more than half of the households have a low income and social assistance occurs many times more often there than nationally.
- no. 12,727 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 110 of 110 in Den Haag
How Laakhaven-Oost scores
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Is Laakhaven-Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Laakhaven-Oost comes out at 82 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Laakhaven-Oost is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 617 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Wealth & income
What the homes are worth, what residents earn and how many homes stand empty. It describes the area, not the people living in it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Not part of the grade: air quality varies mostly between regions, barely between neighbourhoods within one municipality. WHO guideline: 5 µg/m³. Calculated annual mean, RIVM 2024.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
Laakhaven-Oost has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 28%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1511%
NL median 14%
- 15–2528%
NL median 11%
- 25–4535%
NL median 22%
- 45–6518%
NL median 28%
- 65+8%
NL median 22%
Share of residents per age group (CBS, 2025). All five bars share one scale, so their lengths can be compared with each other.
Average household size
1.6 — far smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
68% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
18% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
18,043 — far more densely populated than average
NL median 2,364
Tick = Dutch median. Households with children counts towards Families, population density towards Quiet & nature; the other figures here get no grade.
Frequently asked questions
Is Laakhaven-Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Laakhaven-Oost comes out at 82 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Laakhaven-Oost is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Laakhaven-Oost?
In Laakhaven-Oost the police recorded 617 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (82 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.
How is the grade for Laakhaven-Oost calculated?
Laakhaven-Oost scores 2.7 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where Laakhaven-Oost lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.
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